"La Scala La Scala (; abbreviation in Italian language for the official name ) is an opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the """" (New Royal-Ducal Theatre alla Scala). The premiere performance was Antonio Salieri's ""Europa riconosciuta"". Most of Italy's greatest operatic artists, and many of the finest singers from around the world, have appeared at La Scala. The theatre is regarded as one of the leading opera and ballet theatres in the world and is home to the La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Ballet and"
"Teatro Regio Ducal The Teatro Regio Ducal (Italian, ""Royal Ducal Theatre"") was the opera house in Milan from 26 December 1717 until 25 February 1776, when it was burned down following a carnival gala. Many famous composers and their operas are associated with it, including the premieres of Mozart's ""Mitridate, re di Ponto"", ""Ascanio in Alba"", and ""Lucio Silla"". The opera house also saw the premiere of Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini's ""Ciro in Armenia"" in 1753; one of the earliest successfully received operas by a female composer. Variant forms such as ""Regio-Ducal Teatro"" and ""Teatro Regio Ducale"" are also seen."
"to follow opera libretti in English and Italian in addition to the original language. The opera house re-opened on 7 December 2004 with a production, conducted by Riccardo Muti, of Salieri's ""Europa riconosciuta"", the opera performed at La Scala's inauguration in 1778. Tickets for the re-opening fetched up to €2,000. The renovations cost a reported €61 million, and left a budget shortfall that the opera house overcame in 2006. Carlo Fontana, the general manager of La Scala since 1990, was dismissed in February 2005 by the board of governors over differences with the music director, Riccardo Muti. The resulting staff"
"Canobbiana, now called the Teatro Lirico, was inaugurated on 21 August 1779. Notes Cited sources Other sources Teatro Regio Ducal The Teatro Regio Ducal (Italian, ""Royal Ducal Theatre"") was the opera house in Milan from 26 December 1717 until 25 February 1776, when it was burned down following a carnival gala. Many famous composers and their operas are associated with it, including the premieres of Mozart's ""Mitridate, re di Ponto"", ""Ascanio in Alba"", and ""Lucio Silla"". The opera house also saw the premiere of Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini's ""Ciro in Armenia"" in 1753; one of the earliest successfully received operas"
"Teatro Lirico (Milan) The Teatro Lirico (known until 1894 as the Teatro alla Canobbiana) is a theatre in Milan, Italy. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was particularly notable for opera performances, including the world premieres of Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"" and Giordano's ""Fedora"". The theatre, located on Via Rastrelli, closed in 1998. However, a restoration project was begun in April 2007, and it was due to re-open in 2009 as the Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber. The Court Theatre of the Ducal Palace in Milan was destroyed by fire on February 26, 1776. With the city deprived of its"
"was completed in 1676 by Francesco Santorini, and opened in 1677 under the families of Benedetto Marcello and the Capellos. The house was opened with the opera ""Helena rapita da Paride"" of Domenico Freschi, (1677) and continued with operas by Freschi, Gasparini, Albinoni and Bononcini. From around 1715 onwards the house was best known as the venue of many of the operas of Antonio Vivaldi. Under Vivaldi the opera house became increasingly populist and commercial. Soon theatre was home to the operas of Baldassare Galuppi, (""Argenide"" 1733), and plays of Goldoni. In the 1790s the Abate Pietro Chiari wrote for"
"Teatro Donizetti The Teatro Donizetti is an opera house in Bergamo, Italy. Built in the 1780s using a design by architect Giovanni Francesco Lucchini, the theatre was originally referred to as either the Teatro Nuovo or Teatro di Fiera. The first opera to be mounted at the theatre, Giuseppe Sarti's ""Medonte, re di Epiro"", was in 1784 while the opera house was still under construction. The official opening of the house, under the name the Teatro Riccardi, did not occur until 24 August 1791 with a production of Pietro Metastasio's ""Didone abbandonata"" set to music by multiple composers, including Ferdinando"
"inaugural presentation on 5 June 1958 was Verdi's ""Macbeth"", but other less known and neglected operas characterized early Festivals. In addition to Menotti's own operas, most seasons reflect a broad range of periods and styles. Teatro Caio Melisso The Teatro Caio Melisso is an opera house located in Spoleto, Italy and it serves as the main venue for opera performances during the annual summer Festival dei Due Mondi. The theatre has undergone several transformations and name changes since the late 17th century. The ""Teatro di Piazza del Duomo"", also known as the ""Teatro della Rosa"", built around 1667 was modernized"
"Milanese singer, songwriter, actor and playwright who had frequently performed at the Teatro Lirico from the early 1960s until its closure in 1998. The renovated theatre will also house the archives of the Fondazione Giorgio Gaber. Opera Ballet Further Reading Teatro Lirico (Milan) The Teatro Lirico (known until 1894 as the Teatro alla Canobbiana) is a theatre in Milan, Italy. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was particularly notable for opera performances, including the world premieres of Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"" and Giordano's ""Fedora"". The theatre, located on Via Rastrelli, closed in 1998. However, a restoration project was begun"
"contributed with Palazzo Beltrami (1886), then with the new facade of Palazzo Marino (1888-1892), and, much later, with the Banca Commerciale building (1923-1927). Piazza della Scala Piazza della Scala is a pedestrian central square of Milan, Italy, connected to the main square of Milan, Piazza del Duomo, by the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II passage. It is named after the renowned Teatro alla Scala opera house, which occupies the north-western side of the square; the building actually includes both the opera house and the Museo Teatrale alla Scala (La Scala Museum), dedicated to the history of La Scala and opera in"
"Teatro Malibran The Teatro Malibran, known over its lifetime by a variety of names, beginning with the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo (or Crisostomo) after the nearby church, is an opera house in Venice which was inaugurated in 1678 with a production of the premiere of Carlo Pallavicino's opera ""Vespasiano"". By 1683, it had quickly become known as ""the biggest, most beautiful and richest theatre in the city"" and its operatic importance throughout the 17th and 18th centuries led to an even grander description by 1730: Richly decorated, the theatre consisted of five levels of thirty boxes and a large stalls"
"in the typical horseshoe style. In 1974, the house was closed to complete renovations required by updated safety regulations, but cost over-runs, corruption, and political in-fighting all added to the delay and it remained closed for twenty-three years, finally re-opening on 12 May 1997, four days before its centenary. The opera season started again in 1999, although Verdi's ""Aida"" was performed in 1998 while work in progress continued. During the restoration regular opera seasons were performed in Teatro Politeama, a minor building not far from Teatro Massimo. In summer a few performances, usually concerts, ballet and operetta, are held in"
"Teatro di San Carlo The Real Teatro di San Carlo (""Royal Theatre of Saint Charles""), its original name under the Bourbon monarchy but known today as simply the Teatro di San Carlo, is an opera house in Naples, Italy. It is located adjacent to the central Piazza del Plebiscito, and connected to the Royal Palace. It is the oldest continuously active venue for public opera in the world, opening in 1737, decades before both the Milan's La Scala and Venice's La Fenice theatres. The opera season runs from late January to May, with the ballet season taking place from April"
"area. However, as an opera house, its success was short-lived and from 1751 to 1800, opera was rarely performed there. Taken over by the municipality in 1797, it became the Teatro Civico until purchased by a partnership and restored in 1819. It re-opened again, this time in private hands, with Rossini's ""La gazza ladra"". But deterioration continued, the partnership broke up, and the remaining partner, Giovanni Gallo, continued with additional refurbishment, giving it the new name of the Teatro Emeronitto (""Theatre of Day and Night"") and inaugurating it in December 1834 with Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"". When the famous soprano Maria"
"but very Italian-centered and hardly international. The only main international Italian pop-singers include 1970s pop-diva Mina, who sold 76 million records worldwide in her lifetime, and singer Laura Pausini, who has sold 45 million albums. La Scala opera house in Milan is renowned as one of the best in the world. There are other famous venues for opera, including San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice Theatre in Venice, and the Roman arena in Verona. Additionally, there are fifteen publicly owned theaters and numerous privately run ones in Italy. These theaters promote Italian and European plays as well as ballets. Famous"
"such as ""Nabucco"" by Giuseppe Verdi in 1842, ""La Gioconda"" by Amilcare Ponchielli, ""Madama Butterfly"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1904, ""Turandot"" by Puccini in 1926, and more recently ""Teneke"", by Fabio Vacchi in 2007. Other major theatres in Milan include the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Teatro Dal Verme, Teatro Lirico and formerly the Teatro Regio Ducal. The city is also the seat of a renowned symphony orchestra and musical conservatory, and has been, throughout history, a major centre for musical composition: numerous famous composers and musicians such as Gioseppe Caimo, Simon Boyleau, Hoste da Reggio, Verdi, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Paolo Cherici and"
"and the Sale Apollinee were saved. The association decided to proceed with its immediate reconstruction. It appointed the architect Giambattista Meduna and his engineer brother Tommaso to carry out the work, while Tranquillo Orsi was responsible for the decorations. The work began in February 1837 and performances were temporarily staged in the Teatro Apollo (previously the San Luca, now Goldoni). Everything was completed in record time. By the evening of 26 December of the same year, the new opera house, reborn in the new artistic style of the age, was opened to the public. The speed of the work, however,"
"after 1718 that it was opened to the public. In this theatre the great operas of Mozart were heard for the first time in Italy, and Donizetti’s ""Parisina"" and ""Rosmonda d'Inghilterra,"" Verdi’s ""Macbeth"" (1847) and Mascagni’s ""I Rantzau"" were given their premiere productions. By the nineteenth century, La Pergola was performing operas of the best-known composers of the day including Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi's ""Macbeth"" was given its premiere performance at the Pergola in 1847. The Pergola's present appearance dates from an 1855-57 remodelling; it has the traditional horseshoe-shaped auditorium with three rings of boxes and"
"fabric of the drama and lavish use of accompanied recitative. The opera was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 26 December 1779 to open the theater's operatic carnival season of 1780 as one of the earliest operas ever performed there. It was a spectacular failure that necessitated the substitution of many of the arias for works of Giuseppe Sarti and Francesco Bianchi. The first performance of the opera since its first run in Milan took place in Lisbon on 22 May 2015 in the form of a semi scenic version sponsored by the . There is"
"room to every box, with a fireplace in it, and all conveniences for refreshments and cards. In the fourth row is a ""pharo"" table, on each side of the house, which is used during the performance of the opera. After the destruction of the Teatro Regio Ducal, which had been a wing of the Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace), two new theatres were commissioned to be built near the site, both designed by Giuseppe Piermarini. The Nuovo Regio Ducal Teatro alla Scala (with variant forms of its name), the present-day La Scala, was inaugurated on 3 August 1778. The Teatro alla"
"first opera, ""Il Pigmalione"" (composed 1816), was given its world premiere at the theatre on 13 October 1960. Adjacent to the theater is a park with the Monument to Donizetti. Teatro Donizetti The Teatro Donizetti is an opera house in Bergamo, Italy. Built in the 1780s using a design by architect Giovanni Francesco Lucchini, the theatre was originally referred to as either the Teatro Nuovo or Teatro di Fiera. The first opera to be mounted at the theatre, Giuseppe Sarti's ""Medonte, re di Epiro"", was in 1784 while the opera house was still under construction. The official opening of the"
"his birth) and also work by Wagner. It continues to function as an alternative venue for productions from La Fenice as well as staging many of its own: Notes Sources Teatro Malibran The Teatro Malibran, known over its lifetime by a variety of names, beginning with the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo (or Crisostomo) after the nearby church, is an opera house in Venice which was inaugurated in 1678 with a production of the premiere of Carlo Pallavicino's opera ""Vespasiano"". By 1683, it had quickly become known as ""the biggest, most beautiful and richest theatre in the city"" and its operatic"
"Teatro dell'Opera di Roma The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (""Rome Opera House"") is an opera house in Rome, Italy. Originally opened in November 1880 as the 2,212 seat ""Costanzi Theatre"", it has undergone several changes of name as well modifications and improvements. The present house seats 1,600. The Teatro dell'Opera was originally known as the ""Teatro Costanzi"" after the contractor who built it, Domenico Costanzi (1810-1898). It was financed by Costanzi, who commissioned the Milanese architect Achille Sfondrini (1836-1900), a specialist in the building and renovation of theatres. The opera house was built in eighteen months, on the site where"
"1827 and 1829 by architect Philip Ferranti. The house was a meeting place for many artists, composers and singers. A frequent visitor was Vincenzo Bellini who, aided by the lake landscape of Moltrasio and Blevio, gave life to his work ""Norma"", which was first performed by Giuditta Pasta. That opera featured the aria ""Casta Diva"", which became one of the most famous arias of the nineteenth century The chronicles report that in 1829 Gaetano Donizetti spent a month in the villa while composing the Opera ""Anna Bolena"". Today, the villa has been newly renovated and houses the CastaDiva Resort &"
"by Giuseppe Verdi in 1842, ""La Gioconda"" by Amilcare Ponchielli, ""Madama Butterfly"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1904, ""Turandot"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1926, and more recently ""Teneke"", by Fabio Vacchi in 2007, to name but a few. Other major theatres in Milan include the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Teatro Dal Verme, Teatro Lirico (Milan) and the Teatro Regio Ducal. The city also has a renownded symphony orchestra and musical conservatory, and has been, throughout history, a major centre for musical composition: numerous famous composers and musicians such as Gioseppe Caimo, Simon Boyleau, Hoste da Reggio, Verdi, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Paolo Cherici and"
"Milan on 26 December 1771 (that is, the first day of the operatic carnival season of 1772). It was very successful when it appeared, indeed one of the most popular operas performed in Milan in its day. A number of vocal pieces from the opera were frequently copied in late eighteenth-century vocal collections, for example the magnificent duet ""Di quel amabil ciglio"" and the aria ""Il caro e solo oggetto."" ""Il gran Tamerlano"" was revived in Pavia in 1776, but not performed in modern times until a production was mounted in Brno in the former Czechoslovakia in 1967 (an abbreviated"
"a gallery in the shape of a horseshoe; on the side was a small ""Ridottino"" for gambling and the sale of drinks and sweets beside masks and costumes for the feasts. It was completed on 26 December 1717 and it was inaugurated with the opera ""Costantino"" by Gasparini. In 1723, a second fire struck, damaging the ceremonial halls of the palace. The Austrian magistrate, Wirich Philipp von Daun, commissioned restorations, updating the wings of the ""Cortile d'Onore"" (Honor Courtyard) in a livelier style, whitewashing walls and framing the windows with baroque frames designed by Carlo Rinaldi. The church of San"
"capital of the Cisalpine Republic. Later, he declared Milan capital of the Kingdom of Italy and was crowned in the Duomo. Once Napoleon's occupation ended, the Congress of Vienna returned Lombardy, and Milan, along with Veneto, to Austrian control in 1815. During this period, Milan became a centre of lyric opera. Here in the 1770s Mozart had premiered three operas at the Teatro Regio Ducal. Later La Scala became the reference theatre in the world, with its premières of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi. Verdi himself is interred in the Casa di Riposo per Musicisti, his present to Milan. In"
"only theatre, Giuseppe Piermarini was commissioned to design and build two new theatres on land surrounding the Palace. The church of Santa Maria della Scala was demolished to build the Teatro alla Scala. A second theatre was built nearby, on the site of the Scuole Cannobiane and was called the Teatro alla Canobbiana. The Teatro alla Scala was intended for the more aristocratic audiences, while the Cannobiana was considered the theater for the public at large. It was inaugurated on August 21, 1779 (a little more than year after the opening of La Scala) with an opera buffa and ballet"
"Il matrimonio segreto Cimarosa's only work still to be regularly performed, it is arguably one of the greatest 18th century opera buffa apart from those by Mozart. Its premiere was the occasion of the longest encore in operatic history; Leopold II was so delighted that he ordered supper served to the company and the entire opera repeated immediately after. The Italian premiere of the opera was given at La Scala in Milan on 17 February 1793 with Maria Gazzotti as Carolina and Vincenzo Del Moro as Paolino. England saw the work for the first time on 11 January 1794 at"
"Milan Conservatory The Milan Conservatory (""Conservatorio di musica “Giuseppe Verdi” di Milano"") is a college of music in Milan. The conservatory was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year with premises in the cloisters of the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Passione. There were initially 18 boarders, including students of both sexes. Today it is the largest institute of musical education in Italy. In its 200-year history, the conservatory has educated some of Italy's most prominent musicians and conductors, including Fausto Romitelli, Oscar Bianchi, Luca"
"a secure base to any opera company. And why? Because it was primarily a real estate venture run by a board of investors seeking the highest rent possible."" Other opera companies active at the Academy, including Jaime Nunó's Havana Italian Opera Troupe and the Max Strakosch Italian Opera Company, the latter of which began performing at the Academy in 1860 only to merge with Maretzek's company in 1868. The Academy hosted several American premieres, including ""Rigoletto"" (1855), ""Il trovatore"" (1855), ""La traviata"" (1856), ""Aida"" (1873), ""Lohengrin"" (1874), ""Die Walkure"" (1877) and ""Carmen"" (1878). The Academy's opera season became the center"
"Scala operahouse in Milan is also renowned as one of the best in the world. Famous Italian opera singers include Enrico Caruso and Alessandro Bonci. Introduced in the early 1920s, jazz took a particularly strong foothold in Italy, and remained popular despite the xenophobic cultural policies of the Fascist regime. Today, the most notable centres of jazz music in Italy include Milan, Rome, and Sicily. Later, Italy was at the forefront of the progressive rock and pop movement of the 1970s, with bands like PFM, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Le Orme, Goblin, and Pooh. The same period saw diversification in"